Hacker’s Perspective on New Risks: AI-enhanced Attacks and Countermeasures

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About the session

Digital transformation is accelerating faster than ever. As organizations scale cloud adoption, automate operations, and embed AI into critical workflows, the attack surface is expanding in both size and complexity. With more data, identities, and systems exposed, cybersecurity is now a core business risk — and AI is enabling a new class of faster, more adaptive attacks.

In this session, Paula Januszkiewicz takes you inside the mind of an attacker to show how artificial intelligence is reshaping offensive techniques. Through realworld demos and practical analysis, she reveals how adversaries use AI to bypass traditional defenses, evade detection, and exploit vulnerabilities across hybrid environments.

Most importantly, the session turns these insights into actionable countermeasures, highlighting how to evolve monitoring, detection, identity protections, and incident response to stay ahead of AIdriven threats.

As we move deeper into 2026, understanding how attackers weaponize AI is no longer optional. Join this session to see what’s truly possible from a hacker’s perspective — and learn how to build resilient defenses against the next wave of intelligent cyberattacks.

Meet the Speaker

Paula Januszkiewicz

CEO and Founder of CQURE, Microsoft MVP and RD, Cybersecurity expert

Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE and CQURE Academy, which she established back in 2008. She is also an Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director, and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting Customers worldwide. In 2017, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School. She delivers keynotes and sessions at the biggest world conferences such as RSA, Black Hat, Microsoft Ignite, SecTor Canada, Australian Cyber Conference, GISEC, GITEX, LEAP, and many others. She is often a top-rated speaker, including being chosen the No. 1 Speaker at Microsoft Ignite (among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26,000 attendees) and at Black Hat Asia 2019. At the RSA Conference, two of her sessions were among the top 5 best rated. Paula is known for her unique stage presence that is always well-received among diverse audiences, often gathering thousands of people!

Paula has over 19 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, trainings, and seminars. Every year, she takes over 200 flights to provide cybersecurity services for CQURE’s Customers. Paula and her Team also design security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Together, they create various security tools (CQTools) supporting penetration tests, incident response, and forensics, which are shared with the community. Paula is a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Natwest. And to top it all off, she has access to the source code of Windows!